> "sic" doesn't stand for "spelling is correct", or even "stated in> context" (yech!).> > In fact, it stands for "yes, I know it looks funny, but that's how I want> it". But people got tired of typing Y,IKILF,BTHIWI so they abbreviated> it to SIC. Then they got tired of pressing caps lock or shift, as is> common on the internet (i see it all the time), and started writing it> as "sic".> > Someone said it was Latin for "thus" or "so", but that's just plain> outlandish - anyone who knew Latin could probably take some time to> learn to spell too.

sic (sik, sek) adv. Thus; so. Used in written texts to indicate that asurprising quotation is not a mistake and is to be read as it stands.[Latin sic.] *Definition taken from The American Heritage Dictionary of theEnglish Language (1970)